Meanings
- uncountableThe state or period of being female.
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Gender inequality was a serious matter for the feminist performer Hannah Wilke (1940-1993), who in a photograph of her face from her “S.O.S. Scarification Object Series” (1974) sardonically calls attention to her femalehood by wearing her hair in curlers and plastering her face with small, vulva-shaped patches of chewing gum.
2007 January 5, Grace Glueck, “Self-Portraits That Obscure the Self”, in New York TimesSynonyms: femaleness, girlhood, womanhood
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state or period of being female.
Origin
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femalehood. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/femalehood
“femalehood.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/femalehood. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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